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Hanoi Expat Vibes: A coworker drove home drunk on a motorbike and got hit by a truck. Literally hit by a truck. Survived, got sent back to UK to recover. Came back when he’d healed up several months later. He drove home drunk again his first weekend back.
Korea Expat Vibes: The common joke about night life in Korea is that even if you pass out on the street with your wallet lying beside you, the worst that will happen is you’ll wake up and someone will have ordered your bills by denomination and put them in your pocket.
Korea Expat Vibes: I fell asleep in a subway station at 3am, waiting for the trains to start again. An old Korean woman poked me awake at 5am to hand me an orange juice she’d bought me from the vending machine. “Hangover, no good” she smiled.
Thailand Expat Vibes: The Thai construction workers at the buffet won’t stop cheering and grinning and giving me shots of some utterly poisonous rice alcohol. It goes surprisingly well with the curry, but at this rate I’m going to be too drunk to walk back to the apartment.